The emirates Mars mission

HES Amiri, D Brain, O Sharaf, P Withnell… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) was launched to Mars in the summer of 2020,
and is the first interplanetary spacecraft mission undertaken by the United Arab Emirates …

The physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar

C Li, Y Zheng, X Wang, J Zhang, Y Wang, L Chen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Exploring the subsurface structure and stratification of Mars advances our understanding of
Martian geology, hydrological evolution and palaeoclimatic changes, and has been a main …

[HTML][HTML] Day–night cloud asymmetry prevents early oceans on Venus but not on Earth

M Turbet, E Bolmont, G Chaverot, D Ehrenreich… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Earth has had oceans for nearly four billion years and Mars had lakes and rivers 3.5–3.8
billion years ago. However, it is still unknown whether water has ever condensed on the …

Largest recent impact craters on Mars: Orbital imaging and surface seismic co-investigation

LV Posiolova, P Lognonné, WB Banerdt, J Clinton… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Two> 130-meter-diameter impact craters formed on Mars during the later half of 2021. These
are the two largest fresh impact craters discovered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter …

Eight-year climatology of dust optical depth on Mars

L Montabone, F Forget, E Millour, RJ Wilson, SR Lewis… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
We have produced a multiannual climatology of airborne dust from martian year 24–31
using multiple datasets of retrieved or estimated column optical depths. The datasets are …

The modern near-surface Martian climate: a review of in-situ meteorological data from Viking to Curiosity

GM Martinez, CN Newman… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
We analyze the complete set of in-situ meteorological data obtained from the Viking landers
in the 1970s to today's Curiosity rover to review our understanding of the modern near …

[HTML][HTML] Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H observed by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

AC Vandaele, O Korablev, F Daerden, S Aoki… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Global dust storms on Mars are rare, but can affect the Martian atmosphere for several
months. They can cause changes in atmospheric dynamics and inflation of the atmosphere …

Stormy water on Mars: The distribution and saturation of atmospheric water during the dusty season

AA Fedorova, F Montmessin, O Korablev, M Luginin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The loss of water from Mars to space is thought to result from the transport of water to the
upper atmosphere, where it is dissociated to hydrogen and escapes the planet. Recent …

Impact of clouds and hazes on the simulated JWST transmission spectra of habitable zone planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system

TJ Fauchez, M Turbet, GL Villanueva… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The TRAPPIST-1 system, consisting of an ultracool host star having seven known Earth-
sized planets, will be a prime target for atmospheric characterization with the James Webb …